''Under the Constellation Gemini'' (russian: Под созвездием Близнецов, Pod sozvezdiyem Bliznetsov) is a 1979 Soviet
science fiction film
Science fiction (or sci-fi) is a film genre that uses speculative, fictional science-based depictions of phenomena that are not fully accepted by mainstream science, such as extraterrestrial lifeforms, spacecraft, robots, cyborgs, interstellar ...
directed by
Boris Ivchenko Boris Ivchenko ( uk, Бори́с Ві́кторович І́вченко; russian: Борис Викторович Ивченко) was a Ukrainian actor and film director. He was the son of another Ukrainian and Soviet film director, Viktor Ivchenk ...
based on the short story ''The Guest'' by Igor Rosokhovatsky.
Plot
In one of the research institutes, the artificial brain Sigom, created under the guidance of Professor Yavorovsky, has disappeared. And also in the city there are strange phenomena: all the animals of the zoo are released from the cages, the books of the city information center are in disarray. And Sigom, having mastered the knowledge of science and fiction accumulated by mankind, he himself creates an artificial organism, returns to the professor and is soon sent to the constellation of Gemini.
Cast
*Vsevolod Gavrilov - Alexander
*Nikolaevich Yavorovsky - Academician
*Gennady Shkuratov - Shigom
*Boris Belov - Semyon Antonovich Tarnov, Colonel of the Militia
*Gulcha Tashbaeva - Maria
*Alexander Pavlov - the commander of the aircraft
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Georgy Grechko
Georgy Mikhaylovich Grechko (russian: Георгий Михайлович Гречко; 25 May 1931 – 8 April 2017) was a Soviet cosmonaut. He flew to space on three missions, each bound for rendezvous with a different Salyut space station. - cameo
*Yaroslav Gavrilyuk - security guard
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Ivan Mykolaichuk
Ivan Vasylyovych Mykolaichuk ( uk, Іван Васильович Миколайчук) (15 June 1941, Chortoryia, Ukrainian SSR – 3 August 1987) was a Ukrainian actor, producer, and screen writer.
He is best known for playing the Hutsul I ...
- member of the crew of the aircraft
*Vyacheslav Zholobov - Dyatlov, a specialist in robotics
*Yury Rudchenko - policeman
*Zemfira Tsakhilova - Tatiana Vladimirovna, referent
References
External links
Soviet science fiction films
1970s science fiction films
Dovzhenko Film Studios films
Films based on works by Russian writers
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